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"Verso is subsidized by Stalinist millionaires." –Ramsey Kanaan

"The products of our mind matter no more or less than the products of our hands. This insight has profound consequences for our understanding of taste. Nowhere do our mind and body overlap more completely than in our tastes." Charlie Bertsch

"I'm more inclined to see it the other way around. I generally believe that theory comes out of practice. You get drawn into these things because you feel as though you've got to do something because of your material circumstances… But I think that in this case, it seems pretty evident to me that action is proceeding theory." -Colin Robinson

"As long as IP[intellectual property] is bought and sold as a commodity, market rules will continue to apply." –Rick Prelinger

"The libertarians have tried to blame everything on the state for not deregulating enough, which I found very intriguing. That was the starting point for me. But if you look at the legacy of the Chicago School of Economis, that's always the response when things go awry." "In a certain way. Everybody wants to be a radical." –Tom Frank

"The powers that be do not sustain their legitimacy by convincing people that the current system is The Answer. That fiction would be too difficult to sustain in the face of so much evidence to the contrary. What they must do, and what they have done very effectively, is convince the mass of people that there is no alternative." –Stephen Duncombe

"Science fiction is a genre sometimes known for its utopian musings on what a more liberated society would look like. And reading about alien or unknown worlds can inspire fans to go beyond the realm of imagination and explore alternative realities and social arrangements in everyday life." –Annalee Newitz

"Feminism has done a lot to expose the phallogocentrism in our culture. We've begun to collectively unravel how homophobia protects traditional economic arrangements based on gender and sexuality, chief among them marriage. Now we need to take it to the next level. We need to expose the ways in which all gender stereotypes are reflections of the market." –Charles Anders

"A society cannot be reduced to it economic base or social structures. It includes superstructures as well. It requires not only institutions but also "values" and ideas, bodies of knowledge, ethics and (a)esthetics. These terms are not found in Marx and their meaning is perhaps not quite precise. They nonetheless convey the fact that for Marx every society is a totality." –Henri Lefebvre